7:00pm

Sarah Snook lends her voice alongside Kodi Smit-McPhee, Magda Szubanski, Eric Bana and Jacki Weaver in the second claymation feature from Adam Elliot.

2024 / 94 mins / Australia / Drama, Animation
Program Strand/s: Australian Films
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8:45pm

From Cannes competition lands a colourful, queered and beachside-set erotic thriller in which desire and destiny clash in a seedy sex hotel.

Program Strand/s: Latin America
9:00pm

A downtrodden father literally takes flight from the strictures of society in this supernaturally tinged, Tunisia-set odyssey.

Program Strand/s: Africa & Middle East
9:00pm

Responding to his wife’s death, David Cronenberg fashions a meditation on loss, longing and grief, filtered through a necro-techno body-horror lens.

Program Strand/s: Headliners
9:00pm

Delirious, debaucherous and downright dangerous – the Scala played home to sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll (and John Waters) in Thatcher-era London.

Program Strand/s: Documentaries
9:15pm

In cult UK comedy treasure Alice Lowe’s film, a woman’s misguided fatal attraction to the same pretty bad-boy has lasted six centuries … so far.

Dir. Alice Lowe / 2024 / 97 mins / UK / English / Sci-Fi / Australian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Night Shift
9:30pm

A voyage through the singular career of Scottish post-rock legends Mogwai, from their beginnings in the 90s to the creation of their latest album.

Program Strand/s: Music on Film
9:30pm
Local soul-seekers Surprise Chef re-score the the classic Australian film Wake in Fright, whose 4K restoration world-premieres at MIFF.
Dir. Ted Kotcheff / 1971 / 109 mins / English
Program Strand/s: Special Events
9:45pm

Class is in session! Celebrate the world of gender-punk icon Peaches in this audacious Teddy Award–winning documentary.

Program Strand/s: Music on Film
9:45pm

In this SXSW award-winner, a theatre group finds hope and meaning through self-expression within the confines of a maximum-security prison.

Dir. Greg Kwedar / 2023 / 106 mins / USA / English / Drama / Australian Premiere
Program Strand/s: North America
11:15pm

In this striking genre-bender from Cannes Critics’ Week, a young woman wants to rise the ranks of bull-running – but a rogue animal is on the loose.

Dir. Emma Benestan / 2024 / 99 mins / France / French / Drama, Horror / Australian Premiere
Program Strand/s: Night Shift
11:30pm

This award-winning spine-chiller from Caveat director Damian McCarthy unleashes horror from every corner of a haunted house.

Program Strand/s: Night Shift
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